Thread: Best CPU?
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Old 01-11-2017, 03:08 PM   #7
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That video is annoying because he's on the right track but comes to the wrong conclusion that faster CPUs are not always better for reducing pops and clicks that aren't caused by an interrupt that consumes an entire block worth of processing. Faster CPUs give more headroom and whilst the performance at ultra low latencies is dependent on the max amount of time other processes hog the processor, where there is wiggle room - which there should be - a faster CPU will improve things. On the same system.

So yes, a fast processor (or a slow one) will be restricted by other processes hogging CPU time at uber low latencies. But putting a processor that is twice as fast in there will allow twice as many operations to be done in the time left in that audio block. It also can reduce the time taken to process the other blocking processes. At higher latencies it kind of doesn't matter since the reduction in processing time available due to DPC latency etc is a much smaller percentage of the audio block.

Btw, AMD might be about to change the game with Ryzen - we'll see what the power management is like first though, but they are matching i7-6700K performance at the moment in engineering sample batches.
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